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Communism became an important issue in everything, including student pranks. In his history The Harvard Century, author Richard N. Smith recalls one time during the 1950s when The Crimson pulled a joke on the Lampoon...
...When two Crimson editors stole the Lampoon's mascot, a large metal stork named Ibis, and presented it to Stalin as a gift from American students, and then the 'Poonies retalisted by reporting this flagrant example of Communist sympathizing to the McCarthy committee, it was funny," Smith writes. "The laughter died quickly however, when McCarthy attacked Harvard for its decision to retain three instructors who had supported the Communist cause...
...told right after the hiring of Assistant Director Ken Smith and the fourth director of programming that the University would authorize those programs from January to October," Johnson said. "They said that they would do that temporarily but that we're going to convene a committee to look into all this business...
...always very willing to find out what the student perspective was and what the effect on student would be," said Secretary to the Administrative Board Virginia L. Mackay-Smith '78. Herrnstein was "a very good citizen of this community," said Secretary to the Faculty Council John B. Fox Jr. '59. At different times, he served on the Ad Board, the Faculty Council and the standing committee on athletics. Last year, he was appointed a member of the committee on the structure of Harvard College...
...Harrods scandal has caused this week's second resignation by a British official amid allegations that he accepted favors from the department store. This time it's Neil Hamilton, the government's Corporate Affairs Minister who oversees business ethics. Last Thursday, Northern Ireland Minister Tim Smith quit after he admitted taking a payoff from Harrods before carrying water for the department store in Parliament. Hamilton, however, is going out swinging, insisting he did nothing wrong and threatening to sue The Guardian -- the paper that broke the scandal. His resignation may be good news for scandal-plagued Prime Minister John Major...